Hello, everyone! Here’s my first update.
After a couple of days to work with the My Article Network system, I now know a lot more about it.
On the “Articles for Content” side, I now have three sites connected up and receiving content articles. With MAN, you can add as many sites as you wish. But each site must must have a remote publishing API, for it to be added to and become part of the My Article Network. Sites that qualify include:
* Self-hosted WordPress blogs (WordPress 2.0.x and later) — (Probably most of those in the MAN system are this type.)
* Any Drupal site (must have the Drupal XML-RPC API enabled)
* Any Joomla! site (must have the Joomla! XML-RPC API enabled)
* Any other site that has either an XML-RPC API or an Atom API.
Since I have WordPress blogs, I started with connecting three of these into the network. At this moment (December 22, 2009) the system has already posted 5 articles on one site, 3 on another and 1 on the last site connected; a total of 9 content articles already posted on my sites!
In accepting articles for content on your sites, you have a choice of auto posting or posting after approval. Being new here, I elected to approve (at least until I get some experience with this!). I have rejected 4 articles, approved 9.
When you reject or accept an article, you have a chance to send a short feedback message to the author. Using that, I told the rejected authors that their “spinning” was out of kilter, leading to parts that made no sense. So, let’s see… Rejected 4 out of 13, that’s 31%. Not too bad. Those articles were not TOO bad. It’s just that I am picky about readability! Don’t want any semi-literate articles on my sites.
On the “Submit Articles for Backlinks” side, I have submitted two articles which have now been published 4 and 3 times, total 7 publications of my articles, complete with 3 textual backlinks each, means 21 new links, now live on the Web.
Unlike in article marketing, where you generally must put all of your anchor text links in your bio box at the end, here you can put up to three anchor links in the text of the article. That’s better, stronger linking because it is clearly related to the text, what is being said in the article. Gets more link-juice that way!
You get feedback on your articles page about acceptance-rejection ratios. So far, I am at 100%. All articles offered for publication have been accepted. I guess that most members here use auto accept for articles, then just delete any weak ones later… 
You don’t have to spin articles at all, if you don’t want to. As I see it, there are advantages for spinning. (1.) You don’t have duplicate articles out there so that the SE’s only credit you with the first one. (2.) Website owners prefer spun articles so that they know they will get credit for an article with unique text.
[There's an option for receiving articles for posting on your sites that lets you reject any with less than 30% spinning. I checked that box for all my sites, to get mostly unique articles to post.]
MAN offers two alternative methods of spinning: By alternate sentences or by coding the text. Their coding system is similar to but a bit different from what I am used to. It’s a variation of the widely used curly brackets “{ }” and bars “|” system.
So it’s pretty easy to use. In fact it is much more flexible and easier to use than other article submission setups I have tried.
There are lots of categories and sub-categories for articles. Lets you zero-in on what’s relevant for your sites. That’s good!
O.K. I have gotten started now and more or less understand how things work here. Now the task will be to get a number of sites set-up to receive content. And to turn out a number of articles to get backlinks out there.
So far, so good. This is turning out to be easier than I thought! Now I just need to get into it and use it. There is no limit to the number of sites I can add or the number of articles I can submit for publication. So the best way to get my money’s worth is to use it to the max!
I plan to enter and promote some new sites so I can measure the effects. Also plan to promote some existing sites to round out the sources of backlinks to them…
More updates about my experiences with My Article Network will be coming here soon…
Merry Christmas to all!
Jorge Chavez
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